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FOREWORD. 


We present herewith a brief account of the 
work and present status of our Mission in India. 
The figures and facts are taken from the last 
India Report. 

For three-quarters of a century the Church 
has been doing missionary work in this field. As 
we reckon, that is a long time. Through all 
these years the investment of men, women, and 
money, prayer, interest and devotion in this en- 
terprise has continued. Whether sparingly or 
bountifully, we have been sowing, and it would 
be evidence of sad indifference did we not ask: 
‘*Has any harvest been reaped?’’ ‘The aim of 
this little booklet is to give a comprehensive, 
though necessarily brief and incomplete, answer 
to that question, and so to awaken a deeper in- 
terest and steadier devotion in this Mission in 
particular, and in world-evangelization in gen- 
eral. To this end we bespeak a thoughtful and 
prayerful reading and consideration of the con- 
tents of this folder by all our people. 


LUTHER KUHLMAN. 


REV. JOHN E. GRAEFE MRS, JOHN E, GRAEFE 


REV. GEORGE A, RUPLEY MRS. GEORGE A. RUPLEY 


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THE FIELD AND ITS PEOPLE. 


The map helps us to locate the field in the 
Northern part of the Madras Presidency, South 


India. It contains thirteen taluks, or counties. 
Irrigation, in the Eastern section, makes the soil 


richly productive of rice and other grains, and 
the people are correspondingly prosperous and 
comfortable. In the parts lying on the uplands, 
on the other hand, the soil is poorer, crops are 
more meager and even the sparser population 
knows what poverty is. 

Here are, in round numbers, two millions of 
people. To present in few words an intelli- 
gent understanding of their needs, conditions of 
life, is not possible. Racially, linguistically, re- 
ligiously, from practically every point of view. 
there is bewildering variety. Hindu and Mo- 
hammedan, Buddhist and Parsee, Jew and 
Christian, dwell hard by each other. Socially, 
caste, hoary, rigid and exacting, holds all in its 
pitiless grasp. At the top is the Brahman, at 
the bottom the outcast, while between stretches 
a graduation that is endless. Poor in many 
ways, these people are peculiarly rich in gods, 


They are too numerous to reckon. ‘The lan- 
guages spoken range in number from several 


score to as many hundred. We carry on our 
Mission in the Telugu language area, and the 
acquisition of this tongue is the first task of the 


new missionary. 
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These people do not dwell as individual fami- 
lies on the land, but, after the fashion of the 
Orient, are gathered into about 1500 villages. 
That in 918 of these villages there are Lutheran 
Christians gives an idea of the extent of our 
work. The leaven is pretty widely distributed, 
but it is small as compared with the mass to be 
affected. 

Guntur, 250 miles north of Madras, is at 
once the headquarters of the Mission and of the 
political district of the same name. Here are 
located our principal institutions, such as the 
college, hospital, boarding schools, industrial 
institute, churches, bungalows, etc. Other im- 
portant towns are Chirala, Tenali, Sattenapalli, 
Rentachintala, Narsarowpet and Tarlupad. 
These rank as out-stations and are important 
centers, 

We are not the sole Missionary occupants of 
this field. Baptists, Roman Catholics and the 
Salvation Army are also at work here. Started 
in 1842, the Diamond Jubilee of the Mission 
coincides with the Four Hundredth Anniversary 
of the great Protestant Reformation. Plans are 
being made to take suitable notice of both these 
interesting historical events. The Conference 
has urged that a delegation visit the field from 
the home land in 1917. It is quite possible that 
the Board and Executive Committee of the 


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REV. HARRY E. DICKEY 


MRS. HARRY E. DICKEY 


Woman’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society 
will send such a body and will invite some of 
our well-to-do church members to accompany 
these official representatives. 


THE MISSIONARIES. 


The roll of Missionaries for the year, ar- 
ranged in order of the date of arrival upon the 
field, was as follows: 


MISSIONARIES AND THEIR 


CHARGES. 
Year of 
Location. _— Arrival. 
Rev. L. L. Uhl, Ph.D., D.D. Guntur 1873 
Principal Emeritus A. E. L. M. 
College and in charge of Bible 
Instruction and Special Evan- 
gelism. 
Miss A. S. Kugler, M.D. Guntur 1883 
Medical Work for Women, 
Guntur. 
Rev. J. Aberly, D.D. Guntur 1890 
Boys’ Boarding School, Theo- 
logical Seminary and Guntur 
Congregation. 
Mrs. J. Aberly Guntur 1890 
Congregational and Sudra 
Schools, Guntur. 
Miss Mary Baer, M.A., M.D. Chirala 1895 


Medical Work for Women, 
Chirala 


Miss Annie E. Sanford, B.A. 
Hindu Girls’ Schools, Zenana 
Work and Women’s. Bible 
School, Guntur. 


Miss Mary C. Knauss, M.A. 
Principal Stall High School and 


Training School for Mistresses. 


Rev. Victor McCauley, M.A 
Building and Industrial Work. 


Mrs. Victor McCauley, B.A. 
Orphanage and Training School 
for Masters. 


Miss Ellen B. Schuff, B.A. 
Hindu Girls’; Schools outside of 
Guntur. ' 


Rev. Isaac Cannaday, M.A., B.D. 
Congregational and Eyangelistic 


Work, Sattenapalle Taluk. 


Mrs. Isaac Cannaday, B.A. 
School and Zenana Work, Sat- 
tenapalle Taluk. 


Miss Mary E. Lowe 
Girls’ Boarding School and 
Zenana Work,  Rentachintala 


and surrounding villages. 


Rev. J. Roy Strock, M.A., B.D. 
Principal A. E. L. M. College 
and Branch Schools. 


Mrs. J. Roy Strock, Ph.B. 
Assistant A. E. L. M. College 
and Branch Schools. 


Rey. M. Edwin Thomas, 
BA., B.D. 
Congregational and Evangelistic 
Work, Narasaravupet and Vinu- 
konda Taluks. 
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Year of 


Location. Arrival. 


Guntur 1895 


Guntur 1896 
Guntur 1898 
Guntur 1900 


Narasaravupet 1900 
Sattenapalle 1902 
Sattenapalle 1898 


Rentachintala 1903 


Guntur 1908 
Guntur 1911 


Narasaravupet 1908 


Mrs. M. Edwin Thomas, B.A. 
School and Zenana Work, Nara- 
saravupet and Vinukonda Taluks. 

Rev. R. M. Dunkelberger, M.A. 
Congregational and Evangelistic 
Work, Palnad and Bapatla 
Taluks. 

Mrs. R. M. Dunkelberger, B.A. 
School Work, Palnad Taluk, 
and School for the Blind, Renta- 
chintala. ; 

Rev. Henry R. Spangler, B.A. 
Congregational, Evangelistic and 
School Work, Guntur Taluk. 

Rey. John C. Finefrock, B.A. 
Congregational, Evangelistic and 
School Work, Markapuram, 
Cumbum, Kanigiri and Podili 
Taluks. 

Mrs. John C. Finefrock, B.A. 

Rev. G. Raymond Haaf, M.A. 

* Congregational, Evangelistic and 
School Work, Tenali and Re- 
palle Taluks. 

Mrs. G. Raymond Haaf 

‘Miss Florence M. Welty, B.A. 
Girls’ Boarding School, Guntur. 

Miss Louisa A. Miller, B.A. 


— Rev. Harry E. Dickey, B.A., B.D. 
—Mrs. Harry E. Dickey 


Miss T. E. Nelson, B.A. 
phe E. B. Wolf, B.A., M.D. 
Miss Rebekah Hoffman 

Miss F. M. McConnell 


Rentachintala 


Rentachintala 


Guntur 


Tarlupad 


Tarlupad 
Tenali 


Tenali 


Guntur 


Guntur 
Chirala 
Chirala 
Guntur 
Guntur 
Guntur 
Rentachintala 


ON FURLOUGH. 


Rey. George Albrecht, Ph.D. 
Mrs. George Albrecht 

Miss Katharine Fahs 

Rev. E. H. Mueller, D.D. 
Mrs. E. H. Mueller 

Miss J. H. Wunderlich 

Miss Jessie S. Thomas, Ph.B. 


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Narasaravupet 1911 


1909 


1910 


1910 


191] 


1912 
1912 


1912 
1912 


1913 
1914 
1914 
1914 
1914 
1914 
1914 


1892 
1890 
1894 
1896 
1896 
1901 
1908 


MISS REBEKAH HOFFMAN 


DR. ELEANOR B. WOLF 


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Six of these, namely, Rev. and Mrs. Dickey, 
Miss Nelson, Dr. Eleanor B. Wolf, Miss Hoff- 
man and Miss McConnell, reached the field in 
December, 1914. This is one of the largest 
accessions of foreign workers ever’ received at 
one time. Five of these are busy with the study 
of the language and such duties as they are quali- 
fied to do. Miss McConnell, a Canadian who 
was assigned to medical work at Rentachintala, 
felt constrained to enter the service of the Red 
Cross in England. Five of the seven mission- 
aries on furlough happen to be Germans, and 
hence are unable to return to their posts. In 
addition, Rev. Spangler was loaned to the Her- 
mannsburg Mission, and spent all but a few days 
of each month at Nayrudupet. The loss of the 
services of these seven missionaries brings home 
in a tangible way one of the effects of the great 
war. To meet at least in part the vacancy thus 
created, Rev. Burger, who for domestic reasons 
had taken a pastorate in the home land, finely 
volunteered to return. He will sail as early as 
arrangements can be completed. 


EVANGELISTIC WORK. 


An explanatory word is in order. In reality 
all work in the Mission, whether it is denomina- 
ted industrial, educational, medical, or what not, 
is evangelistic. That is, directly or indirectly, 


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and the more directly the better, it must further 
the preaching of the Gospel and the winning of 
men and women to faith in Jesus Christ. Only 
so and in the measure that it does this, is it en- 
titled to be called missionary. In this broad and 
fundamental sense all missionary work is evan- 
gelistic. 

But there is a direct evangelism, and it in- 
cludes the teaching of the Gospel in the 918 
villages where there are congregations or un- 
organized Christians, and in other villages and 
institutions over the entire field. To build up 
and strengthen believers through and in the 
truth, and to bring those in darkness into the 
light, this is true evangelism. ‘This is the work 
of the district missionary, in so far as his heavy 
executive duties allow him time therefor. This 
is particularly the hourly task of the 894 Indian 
helpers of all grades as they talk with individuals 
or groups of persons, hand our tracts or leaflets, 
seek to adjust difficulties upon the basis of Chris- 
tian principles, as they meet classes of inquirers, 
as in simple fashion they instruct the village con- 
gregation, or as they preach to mixed audiences 
whether in house, or street, or bazaar. It is 
encouraging to note that every missionary stresses 
this kind of effort, and recognizes that the fidelity 
and efficiency with which it is done is at once 


the ground and the measure of the true progress 
of the missionary enterprise. 

The following items from the statistical tables 
will indicate the progress that has been made. 
The total baptized membership is 52,437, a 
gain of 2832. The communicants number 


18,160, an increase of 951. In these items of 
increase every charge in the field has shared. 


There are 7172 inquirers, and 24,264 Sunday- 
school pupils with 770 teachers, an increase of 
1331 pupils, though four charges show a de- 
crease. $3179 was given as benevolence, while 


the considerable sum of $37,253 in cash and 


in kind was given in support of Mission work. 


These few figures must suffice to suggest what 
evangelism has done to produce a Christian com- 
munity. That community, however, is not the 
limit ‘of the influence of the heralded tidings. 
Hundreds and thousands, no one can tell how 
many, not reckoned in that community, have seen 
and felt something of the light and power of the 
Gospel. When the attempt is made to give an 
estimate of the moral and spiritual condition of 
these people, the missionaries speak with great 
reserve. Though conscious of the many subtle 
hindrances which beset these people, and also 
cognizant of their failure and shortcomings, they 
are not discouraged. They are optimistic, eager 


MISS TILLIE E. NELSON 


MISS HELEN H. BRENNEMAN 


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to undertake larger things and devoutly thankful 
for all that God hath wrought. 


ZENANA WORK. 


This means work by women for women in 
the homes and hospitals. Lady missionaries, 
the wives of missionaries, and Bible women are 
the workers. A limited number of homes are 
regularly visited. Secular studies, sewing, cro- 
cheting, etc., and English are taught, but not 
unless Bible teaching is also accepted. As the 
education of women is yet in its early and ele- 
mentary stages, the teaching is very difficult, and 
must be done almost entirely by rote. Some 
pupils will listen but will not try to repeat one 
word, persuaded that it is as absurd for a woman 
to aspire to such attainments as for a buffalo! 
Others, more progressive, will repeat in a poor 
way Bible stories, while still others learn faith- 
fully the Cathechism, Bible stories, prayers and 
hymns. A very few can and do read and study 
their Bibles. In a few homes the young wife 
and mother-in-law study together, and in a 
very, very few, the husband and wife are en- 
rolled as inquirers and are learning for baptism. 
Opportunities for this work are enlarging. 
Homes once closed are now open. In some 
parts the people have called the Bible women 
and invited them to their houses. Occasionally, 


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even men have requested instruction for their 
wives. Slowly prejudice is melting away, faulty 
ideas are passing, and the dawn of a brighter, 
happier day advances. 

More than in any other department, perhaps, 
it is difficult to tabulate definite results here. 
Few statistics are available. Some, but not 
very many, converts have been gained. Would 
there were space to tell the pathetic stories of 
some of these triumphs of the grace of the 
Gospel! In particular does the devoted, per- 
servering, hopeful Bible woman come close to 
the hearts of the people. She is taken into their 
confidence, into her sympathetic ear they pour 
their tales of woe and sadness, and in return 
they receive the unselfish sympathy of a sister 
and the message of a Savior who gives peace 
and joy. God uses weak things to confound 
the mighty. It should not surprise us, when we 
at length come to a correct estimate of the influ- 
ences that have wrought for the redemption of 
India, if we should find that these unobtrusive 
workers have rendered the service that was most 


worth while. 


MEDICAL WORK. 
This is carried on from three centers—Guntur, 
Chirala and Rentachintala. At Guntur there 
is the Hospital for Women and Children, with 


its various departments and wards; a dispensary 
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for Hindus and one for Mohammedans, a Home 
for Nurses, and the Rani Chinnamma Row’s 


Satram. For seven years the repairing of old 
buildings and erecting new ones has been con- 
tinuous, and the physician in charge joyously an- 
ticipates a season of work in the completed build- 
ing with the gates securely locked against con- 
tractors, carpenters, masons and _ their coolies. 
Eleven thousand and sixty patients were treated, 


and 602 operations performed. This work, re- 
quiring the services of more than 60 persons, 
cost the Church at home, exclusive of repairs, 
only $1000. 

At Chirala it has been a year of busy prepara- 
tion for future work. In addition to the hospital, 
other needed buildings have been erected, such 
as houses for native assistants and houses for 
nurses and Bible women. [Roads have: been 
made, wells dug and trees and shrubs planted. 
Yet 4822 new patients were treated, and Bible 
teaching earnestly attended to. 

In spite of persistent effort, no physician has 
yet been secured for Rentachintala. The Medi- 
cal Bungalow has been built, and here the nurse 
did fine service until she felt constrained to join 
the Red Cross work in England. The site for 
the hospital has been selected and the maternity 


ward is going up. A Christian sub-assistant sur- 

geon is at work. An intern, and a well-qualified 

young man graduate from Johns Hopkins, is now 

looking forward to entrance upon this great field, 
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in which he will doubtless experience all the hard- 
ships and the joys of a pioneer medical worker. 

In three directions the Mission is doing spe- 
cial medical work beyond the limits of its own 
field. Under the direction of a Medical Com- 
mittee lepers among our people are sent to neigh- 
boring institutions. “Two members of our Con- 
ference are on the General Committee of the 
Union Mission Tuberculosis Sanatorium at 
Madanapalle. One-third of the eighty patients 
in the sanatorium are from the Guntur district. 
The establishment of a Christian Medical School 
for Women is under way. It gives large promise 
of relief to the women of South India, and in 
this we also have an interest. 


EDUCATIONAL WORK. 


I. Educational Status of India’s Popula- 
tion.—This may be learned from the fact that 
about 30 per cent. of the boys of school-going 
age and only five per cent. of girls attend any 
school whatever. To extend educational facili- 
ties as widely as possible, Government has its 
own ‘schools, and in addition bears about half 
the expense of private schools. Mission schools, 
not purely religious, come under this latter class. 

2. What the Mission is Doing for the Edu- 
cation of India’s People.—It is not possible 
to give an adequate understanding of this im- 


portant work in a few words. ‘The plan pro- 
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jected is large, and cherishes high ideals. Such 
facts as these will give some idea of its extent: 
Ten of the missionaries give all or the greater 
_ part of their time to it; at least a dozen others 
have charge of special schools; each district 
missionary has under him from forty to sixty 
village schools; in 369 schools 492 teachers in- 
struct 12,376 pupils, of whom 7341 are Chris- 
tians; exclusive of the salaries of missionaries 
engaged therein, this educational work costs 
$25,000 annually, of which 50 per cent. 1s 
borne by the Government. 

Of the whole number of schools! 340 are 
village schools, and the instruction given is very 
elementary. In classification of pupils, of which 
there are 9266, this is perhaps the best: Out 
of 511 enrolled, 36 are in the fourth standard 
and 32 in the third. Poverty and lack of inter- 
est are the chief reasons why so few advance 
beyond the lower grades. 

Large as this educational work appears on 
paper, it needs to be increased and improved. 
Even the elementary schools exert a marked in- 
fluence. Says one: ‘There is great need, but 
little satisfaction, in preaching in a village which 
has no school.’ In every one of them religious 
instruction is given. The fundamental truths of 
the Gospel are taught and Christ is presented 
as the only hope of a lost world. 


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PERSECUTION. 


“Two of our best villages in Vinukonda Taluk have 
been sorely put to the test. * * * In the second 
village the Sudras and non-Christian Malas have been 
quarreling with our Christians and have persecuted 
them quite severely. The Christians’ prayer-house has 
been burnt down, and they have been informed that the 
same fate awaits their dwelling-houses unless they recant. 
It is little of a secret that their enemies have made their 
boast that they will not stop till Christianity is driven out 
of the village. Up to the present there hase been no 
wavering. * * * As far as I am concerned, | favor 
persecution. We have had so little of it that Christianity 
has not been put to the test. It is the fire that separates 
the gold from the dross. Our Christians are too nega- 
tive in their spiritual life. It is counted, oftentimes, a 
fad to be a Christian, and so some come just for the 
novelty of it. Others come because they wish protection 
from the police; others because their relatives are 
Christians, and still others for marriage. It is difficult 
for one to marry a Christian without first becoming a 
Christian himself. There is little appearance in such as 
these of a desire to follow a better Teacher and lead 
a better life. We must endeavor to awaken this desire 
after they have entered the fold. Progress is naturally 
slow and the work up-hill.”—Thomas. 


INQUIRERS. 


The total number of inquirers reported for the year 
under review is 7172, which is a decrease of 139 from 
the previous year. As to the status of these inquirers 
in the several Taluks and the manner of dealing with 
them, the reports may speak in detail. In Sattenapalle 
Taluk there were 991 inquirers enrolled and under in- 
struction, more or less, a gain of 216 over the previous 
year and of 460 in two years. These inquirers are to 
be found among the Panchamas (both divisions) and 
lower classes of the Sudras, such as Yanadis, Yerukulas, 
Vedderas, etc. In Sattenapalle station, where two Bible 
women are at work, there are inquirers among almost all 
the higher castes. 


PERSONAL WORK. 


In Sattenapalle one of the three women who were 
baptized as the result of the teaching of the Bible women 
was a member of the Shepherd class. She is almost 
blind and must be led to church services. Her eye- 
sight was destroyed by looking steadfastly at the sun in 
the belief that, by so doing, she would eventually see 
God with her fleshly eyes. At first she was timid and 
wanted the fact of her baptism to be kept more or less 
a secret, but now she is as bold as a lion and preaches 
to everybody; she simply cannot keep quiet. 

In Guntur one blind Goldsmith beggar is learning and 
will carry the Gospel into many a home our teachers 
cannot enter. She insists on having a book, as she says 
that she can get the school children to read her the 
stories and teach her the words of the songs. ‘‘Behold 
the Love of God” is not a bad song by which to beg 
one’s bread.—T homas. 


PROGRESS. 


Almost all the charges report encouraging numerical 
progress, due largely to baptisms. In the Palnad Taluk 
the 468 baptisms given were administered about evenly 
to members of the Sudra caste and the two divisions of 
the Panchamas. In the large Markapuram-Cumbum 
field the increase was encouraging, but would have been 
greater had there been more teachers among the in- 
quirers. The Narasaravupet-Vinukonda charge shows a 
total increase in membership of 568, and the increase in 
Sattenapalle was about 80 less. In both these fields a 
large percentage of the increase came from non-Chris- 
tians—'‘an indication that the church is still absorbing 
and therefore growing.” The missionary of the former 
field writes: “No longer is it a difficult task to make a 
good showing under this head. On the contrary, effort 
was made to withhold baptism, especially from adult 
inquirers, in the hope that they would be better grounded 
in Christian truth and living.”’-—Cannadav. 


OUTLOOK. 


The work is a hopeful one. When one recalls how 
small a proportion of time is really given to it, one can 
only be surprised that we have as many results as we do. 
What we need is more evangelistic effort—Dr. ]. 
Aberly, Guntur. 

Today we are more strongly convinced than ever of 
the value and the power of Medical Mission work as 
an evangelistic agency—Dr. A. S. Kugler, Guntur. 

The other day I said to a woman from a village quite 
far away, “Amma (mother), you ought to be a 
Christian.” What was her answer? “Your religious 
teaching has not yet reached my village.” I could have 
cried. Take that home, dear reader, and tell it to your 
society—" Y our religious teaching has not reached my 
village.”"—Dr. M. Baer, Chirala. 

Satisfactory. The great need is for another missionary 
and a more nearly Christian staff—lRev. f. Roy Strock, 
Guntur College. 

I feel that the work of the Bible women as well as of 
other agencies is like the work of roots and rootlets 
which penetrate every crack and crevice. Some day, 
when the roots have taken hold, the old leaves will fall 
off one by one and in large numbers, and the old tree 
will get new leaves and new fruit. The old leaves have 
begun to fall in Sattenapalle and the =ew reaves are in 
the bud.—Mrs. Cannaday, Sattenapalle. 

On Home Work Among Hindus.—The Word is being 
preached in season and out of season. Young and old 
are being reached. God only knows what the harvest 
will be. 

Among Mohammedans.—Only faith in the effectual 
working of the Word of God keeps one at this work. 
I think I never realized before what a discouraging 


work it is—Miss A. E. Sanford, Guntur. 


Oe 1915. 
1. Population and Villages. 
(1) Population of Mission Field.2,000,000 2,200,000 
(2) Taluks Say s Aakeed tt 13 15 
Villages sds tie ace 1,500 1,500 
2. Schools. 
(1) College and High School. . I I 
(2) Elementary Schools....... 315 369 
G) lxaming! Schools... 22... 5- 4 4 
(4) Sunday-schools.......... 308 368 
3. Workers. 
(1) Day School Teachers..... 395 524 
(2) Gospel Workers, Bible 
Women etc: cnnroueds «sce 350 350 
(3) Workers of all Classes. . 745 874 
(4) Missionaries. . . . ae ke 27 3] 
(5) Nurses and Aenstante! BS O.0t 12 12 
4. Christian Community. 
(1) Christians in three Missions. 100,000 120,000 
(@ymltutheranseeie were tec, 4252991 020,437 
()eCommunicantss) oe ano 45707 18,160 
(4) Inguirers. . . Ae 6,870 PAT2 
(5) Sunday- echeal IN 18,697 24,264 
(6) Congregations. .. . der 536 636 
(7) Villages where Canshant 
FRCS) ae Bee Giclee eae oe 795 918 
5. Buildings. 
(Gye Collevesier ee tis Fe ceiuc che | yD, 
(2) Btlospitals-yey ah echoes sorts | 2 
(6) } Bungalows: os. -chis ok cas 14 17 
(4) Churches. .... eeaniae 23 20 
(5) Boarding Schoolee Se ts Mees § - 6 
(6) Prayer or Schoolhouses. . 177 214 
6. Financial. 
(1) Benevolence. . ........$ 3,000.00 $ 3,200.00 
(2)aGashe Receiptss. .o-4 17,100.00 © 28,560.00 
(3). LRN SG EE heen ie Gale acne 1,667.00 2,200.00 
Sliotalaease ee ereeb21137-07 00) $33,960.00 


Che Board of Foreign Missions 


OF THE GENERAL SYNOD OF THE 
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH 
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 


(The corporate and legal title of the Board should be used 


in all bequests as above.) 


REMEMBER US IN YOUR WILL! 
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President: 


The REV. EZRA K. BELL, D. D. 


Vice-President: 


The REV. J. S. SIMON, D. D. 


The REV. J. A. SINGMASTER, D. D. 
The REV. L. MANGES, D. D. 

MR. CHARLES A. KUNKEL. 

MR. SAMUEL F. ZIEGLER. 

MR. M. P. MOLLER. 

Mr. MARTIN H. BUEHLER. 


General Secretary and Treasurer: 
The REV, L. B. WOLF, D. D. 
21 W. Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Md. 
Field Secretary: 


The REV. LUTHER KUHLMAN, D. D. 
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